Source: http://www.ibtimes.com, August 12, 2015 By: Sneha Shankar GlaxoSmithKline PLC temporarily shut down a manufacturing plant in the eastern town of Zebulon, North Carolina, Tuesday after the bacterium that causes the Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia, was found in a stand-alone cooling tower. The plant manufactures inhaled medications and employs about 850 people. There was no indication that anybody […]

Source: http://www.allgov.com, August 11, 2015 By: Ken Broder San Jose has joined San Diego in employing a novel legal approach to wringing some money out of Monsanto to help pay for polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) pollution in their respective bays caused by the chemical company’s products. Instead of the time-honored Superfund route used in many of […]

Source: http://www.oglecountynews.com, July 22, 2015 By: Chris Johnson Nothing unexpected was discovered after county workers removed six underground tanks last week at a former gas station in Oregon. The Ogle County Highway Department dug up the underground tanks July 16 at 501 W. Washington St. These tanks stored fuel and other gas station chemicals. “We […]

Source: http://www.gazettenet.com, August 7, 2015 By: Rebecca Everett City officials believe the cleanup of contaminated soil at the former Northampton Honda dealership on King Street is another step toward preparing the vacant property for a new commercial use, a year after the building was condemned and demolished. Mayor David J. Narkewicz said Friday that GZA […]

Source: http://vtdigger.org, August 7, 2015 By: Andrew Delaney Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Energy Wise Homes, Inc., 2015 VT 52 Ah, insurance law — where “you get what you pay for” isn’t just a maxim, but a shield, sword and everything else in between. We’re going to skip a lot of the finer details […]

Source: New York Times Online, August 6, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com New York City buildings with water-cooling towers must assess and disinfect the units within the next two weeks under an order issued on Thursday by health officials in response to the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the South Bronx. The directive, by the health […]

Source: http://www.wcpo.com, August 4, 2015 By: Evan Millward, Zac Pitts, Jordan Burgess Lightning from Monday’s storms sparked a fuel tank explosion along a busy Butler County road, sending a fireball skyward and leaving behind a 40-foot-wide crater in the earth. Officials said Tuesday that cleaning up the three fuel tanks compromised by Monday’s lightning strike […]

Source: http://www.sanjoseinside.com, August 6, 2015 By: Jennifer Wadsworth The city of San Jose has sued Monsanto Company and two related corporations over chemical pollution in the San Francisco Bay. Filed a month ago in the U.S. District Court in California’s Northern District, the suit lists defendants as Monsanto, its chemical manufacturing offshoot Solutia Inc. and […]

Source: EHS Today, August 5, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Two years ago, Alan White of the United Steelworkers Local 593 testified in support of new silica standards during public hearings held by the U.S. Department of Labor. White, who had worked at a foundry in Buffalo, N.Y. for nearly two decades, found out six years […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 6, 2015 By: Joseph C. Gebara, Fields Howell Athans & McLaughlin LLP The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled in a split panel decision that the pollution exclusion in a liability policy does not apply to lead paint claims. Smith v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. (10 June 2015). In this […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 5, 2015 By: Anthony B. Cavender, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP In another recent Fifth Circuit case, Cox Operating , L.L.C. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Insurance Company, decided July 30, 2015, the Court of Appeals issued an important environmental/insurance ruling in an insurance recovery controversy.  The Court of Appeals affirmed the lower […]

Source: http://www.democratandchronicle.com, August 5, 2015 By: Meaghan M. McDermott The site of a dry cleaning shop on Dewey Avenue in Greece has been added to the state’s list of inactive hazardous waste sites that pose a significant threat to public health and/or the environment. The former Perfecto-Dry Cleaners property is a .25 acre parcel at […]